The Clarion. Descriptions of English and Foreign Language Courses Offered at East Tennessee State University, Winter/Spring 2017

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1 The Clarion Descriptions of English and Foreign Language Courses Offered at East Tennessee State University, Winter/Spring 2017 WINTER SESSION (12/14/16 01/13/17) ENGLISH ENGL 2030-W01 Literary Heritage Lichtenwalner Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 or equivalent. This course satisfies the requirement for three hours in the Heritage area of familiarity, but does not meet requirements for a major or minor in English. This course offers an introduction to literature revolving around the theme of heritage, particularly as heritage is illustrated in short fiction, poetry, and drama from around the world. Required text: Literature and Ourselves. Henderson. Longman, 6 th ed. ISBN: ENG 2110-W01 American Literature I Russell Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 or equivalent. This survey of important American writers and writing from Colonial times through the Civil War includes works from early explorers and settlers, Native Americans, and significant literary figures such as Bradstreet, Franklin, Jefferson, Hawthorne, Stowe, Douglass, Whitman, and Dickinson. Required text: Norton Anthology of American Literature, (Set 1: Vols. A & B) ed. Baym. 8 th ed. ISBN: ENG 2120-W01 American Literature II Whaley Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 or equivalent. ENGL 2120 is a survey of American Literature covering the years since the Civil War. Students will read important works that define the various literary periods into which these years may be usefully classified: Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, and, since the 1960s, a Contemporary literature that, due to its range of voices, defies easy labels. Major figures from each

2 period (e.g., Henry James, Stephen Crane, T. S. Eliot, and Toni Morrison) will be read and discussed. Students will consider the literature for the themes which answer our questions about the human condition: our nature (desires, fears, attitudes, etc.) and, ultimately, our need to understand the mystery of our existence. Required text: Norton Anthology of American Literature, (Set 2: Vols. C, D, E). Baym. 8 th ed. ISBN: ENGL 2220-W01 British Literature II Westover Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 or equivalent. British Literature II is designed to introduce students to men and women British authors from the Romantic through Modern periods, emphasizing primary texts and their political and social significance in Britain. It will also help students understand the relationship of these writers and their works to their period. Required text: Norton Anthology of English Literature (Set 2-Vols. D, E, F). Greenblatt. 9 th edition ISBN: ENGL 3150-W01 Literature, Ethics, and Values Vaughn Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 or equivalent. This online course offers readings and discussions (through D2L) which reveal ethics and values in literature. Contexts of philosophy, history, and art will be included to enable students to form their own ethical positions and social values. Required text: Making Literature Matter. Schilb. ISBN: ENGL 3290-W01 Introduction to Film Studies Briggs Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 or equivalent. As good a way as any towards understanding what a film is trying to say to us is to know how it is saying it (André Bazin). This course serves as an introduction to the study of film in the way Bazin describes. The course provides students with a basic set of tools for analyzing film. For this purpose, we will break down the complex processes of filmmaking in order to understand the many different aspects that determine the meaning of a finished shot, scene, or film. We will look at the basic components of film style from mise-en-scène through cinematography to editing and sound and we will consider different principles of narration as well as the construction of non-narrative films. We will also familiarize ourselves with the basic terminology for film analysis, and we will explore the relation between film form and culture in selected case studies.

3 SPRING SESSION (01/17/17-05/04/17) ENGLISH ENGL Honors Composition II Topic: How Did Men Learn to Act Like That: Marketing Masculine Utopias Jones Prerequisites: ENGL-1010, ENGL-1018 or equivalent and permission of the English Honors Director. English 1028 is a special topics composition course designed to develop students academic writing skills, with emphasis on critical thinking, research, and argument. In this class, How Did Men Learn to Act Like That: Marketing Masculine Utopias, we will explore the historical marketplace of masculine fantasy. Drawing on groundbreaking gender theorists such as Nancy Armstrong, Eve Sedgwick, and Judith Butler, we will explore how the birth of mass culture in the nineteenth century created new national images of masculine value and power through genre fiction: adventure, spy, detective, and westerns. Readings will include selections from Nietzsche s Genealogy of Morals and Judith Butler s Gender Trouble, Robert Louis Stevenson s Treasure Island, Raymond Chandler s The Big Sleep, John le Carre s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, and Patricia Highsmith s The Talented Mr. Ripley as well as selections from classic American Westerns. Short and action filled, these adventure novels help form the complex web of masculine value in today s culture. Your writing will seek to unravel that web. ENGL ,900 Literary Heritage Carpenter Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 or equivalent. This course satisfies the requirement for three hours in the Heritage area of familiarity, but does not meet requirements for a major or minor in English. This course offers an introduction to literature revolving around the theme of heritage, particularly as heritage is illustrated in short fiction, poetry, and drama from around the world. Required text: Literature and Ourselves. Henderson. Longman, 6 th ed. ISBN: ENGL 2110 (various sections) American Literature I (various instructors) Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 or equivalent. This survey of important American writers and writing from Colonial times through the Civil War includes works from early explorers and settlers, Native Americans, and significant literary figures such as Bradstreet, Franklin, Jefferson, Hawthorne, Stowe, Douglass, Whitman, and Dickinson. Required text: Norton Anthology of American Literature, (Set 1: Vols. A & B) ed. Baym. 8 th ed. ISBN:

4 ENG 2120 (various sections) American Literature II (various instructors) Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 or equivalent. ENGL 2120 is a survey of American Literature covering the years since the Civil War. Students will read important works that defined the various literary periods into which these years may be usefully classified: Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, and, since the 1960s, a Contemporary literature that, due to its range of voices, defies easy labels. Major figures from each period (e.g., Henry James, Stephen Crane, T. S. Eliot, and Toni Morrison) will be read and discussed. Students will consider the literature for the themes which answer our questions about the human condition: our nature (desires, fears, attitudes, etc.) and, ultimately, our need to understand the mystery of our existence. Required text: Norton Anthology of American Literature, (Set 2: Vols. C, D, E). Baym. 8 th ed. ISBN: ENG 2138 Honors Survey in American Literature Carpenter Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 or equivalent. After the British surrendered to American forces at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781, nearly two years passed before the ratification of the Treaty of Paris in 1783, officially ending the Revolutionary War and recognizing the United States as an independent nation. In the intermediate year, J. Hector St. John De Crèvecoeur published Letters from an American Farmer, in which he asks What is an American? ; a paramount question at a time when the nation was on the cusp of sovereignty and establishment of a political and social system that poses an inherent tension between the sovereignty of the individual and the authority of the collective. During this course, in addition to considering the initial question De Crèvecoeur poses and the ways in which any answer to this question is open to revision, we will consider what role our various understandings of the American character, society and culture play in shaping American literature. A central theme in this inquiry will be a consideration of the development of American individualism in contrast with social and cultural constructs. The readings during this course will cover a broad survey of American literature from the 18 th century to the present. This survey includes three novels: Mark Twain s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Robert Penn Warren s All the King s Men (NOT the restored version), and Leslie Marmon Silko s Ceremony; all of these novels feature a central character who directly represents the individual s struggle to come to terms with a fragmented or restrictive collective. ENGL 2210 (various sections) British Literature I (various instructors) Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 or equivalent. British Literature I is designed to introduce students to men and women British authors from the Old (in translation) and Middle period through the 18 th century. Emphasis is on primary texts and their link with historical Britain and helping students understand the relationship of these writers and their works to the genre, politics, intellectual movements, gender roles, and cultural and class distinctions of their period.

5 Required text: Norton Anthology of English Literature (Set 1: Vols. A, B, C). Greenblatt. 9 th ed. ISBN: ENGL British Literature I Grinberg Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 or equivalent. This course offers a survey about women (their lives and writing) in British literary works from the early Middle Ages to the eighteenth century. We will read some of the most important authors of the period, considering their historical and cultural context. In a discussion-based environment, we will learn to read closely a range of exciting texts and genres, looking at issues of gender, race/ethnicity, religion, and class. Students are expected to engage in creative thinking and develop writing skills in our academic journey together. This section of this course is a Women s Studies elective. Required text: Norton Anthology of English Literature (Set 1: Vols. A, B, C). Greenblatt. 9 th ed. ISBN: ENGL 2220 (various sections) British Literature II (various instructors) Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 or equivalent. British Literature II is designed to introduce students to men and women British authors from the Romantic through Modern periods, emphasizing primary texts and their political and social significance in Britain. It will also help students understand the relationship of these writers and their works to their period. Required text: Norton Anthology of English Literature (Set 2-Vols. D, E, F). Greenblatt. 9 th edition ISBN: ENGL World Literature Buck Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 or equivalent. One school of thought sees literature as a window into history and the cultural particulars of its place of origin. Another prizes literature for its ability to reveal universal concerns that apply to human beings in any time and place. We will explore the tension between these two truths by studying great storytelling and poetry from around the world, beginning in ancient Mesopotamia and ending in 20 th century Nigeria. The reading list includes: The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Ramayana, classic Chinese poetry, The Arabian Nights, Death and the King's Horseman, plus an array of modern poems and short stories. This class is taught entirely online. Expect frequent short writing assignments, one longer paper, and frequent deadlines. Required texts: Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse, by David Ferry. ISBN: The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version, by R. K. Narayan. ISBN:

6 The Arabian Nights (Norton Critical Edition), ed. Daniel Heller-Roazen. ISBN: Death and the King's Horseman (Norton Critical Ed.), by Wole Soyinka. ISBN: ENGL 2430 (various sections) European Literature (various instructors) Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 or equivalent. This course offers a historical survey of European works, beginning with antiquity, as basis for Western culture. We will read a range of exciting texts and genres, considering their historical and cultural contexts. Students are expected to engage in creative thinking and develop writing skills in our academic journey together. Required texts: Norton Anthology of Western Literature, Volume One. 9 th Ed. Puchner ISBN: Norton Anthology of Western Literature, Volume Two. 9 th Edition. Puchner, et al. ISBN: ENGL Poetry Graves Prerequisites: ENGL 1020 or equivalent. This course is a study of poetry as a genre with attention to its form and techniques. Reading and analysis of poems written by acknowledged masters of the genre will be included. Required texts: The Norton Introduction to Poetry, 9th Edition, edited by Hunter, Booth, and Mays. Collected Poems, Sylvia Plath. ENGL Drama Weiss That which unites drama from the Greeks to the present day is the mask. The concept of the mask is more than a costume item. It disguises danger, offers freedom and mischief, changes agendas, and alters agency, among other possibilities. While the donning of a mask or disguise is less frequent in modern drama, the concept continues to linger as playwrights thematically and symbolically explore its relevance. Once a costume piece, the mask has taken on great significance on the stage. ENGL Literature and the Environment O Donnell This course is about nature and environment as theme and subject in imaginative literature. Students will read from Bill McKibben's anthology, American Earth: Environmental Writing since Thoreau, for a survey of classic texts in the American tradition. Most of the other texts are recent works in English, including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Students will also read contemporary science and nature

7 writing that addresses and responds to modern environmental concerns. requirement for the environmental studies minor. For more information: faculty.etsu.edu/odonnell/2017spring/engl3050/ The course satisfies a ENGL Southern Appalachian Lit Lloyd You know the tropes: moonshine, feuds, bare feet, squirrel stew, biscuits, forty-five-degree farms, banjos. White men with slouch hats and overalls call the shots while Mama sits on the front porch of the cabin, rocking and smoking her corncob pipe: don t take your next canoe trip here! Hot around the collar yet? Surely there s more to Appalachia than that! You bet there is, and in this course, we ll dig deeply through layers and layers of Appalachia, deeper even than the bottom of the Number Six mine, but going down through that shaft, too, to discover the beating heart of the region or, rather, hearts, for no one heart beats here, but rather a variety of hearts, people, lives. Poetry of hill-born identity lost and found, Cherokee sacred texts, slave narratives, trout streams, mountains scoured away for coal or Walmarts and biscuits and banjos; they re likely, too all this and much more will we consider in this course. Texts: Jo Carson, Daytrips Henry Louis Gates, Colored People: A Memoir Catherine Landis, Harvest Emma Bell Miles, The Spirit of the Mountains (Tennesseana Edition) Jim Wayne Milles, The Brier Poems Erik Reece, Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia Various online and D2L readings ENGL Honors Special Topics: Metaphor in World Literature Elhindi, Michieka, McGarry Students will examine the concept and use of metaphor from a linguistic viewpoint and then study instantiations of metaphor in major areas of world literature including sub-saharan African, Afro- Caribbean, Ecuadorean, French, Japanese, Sri Lankan, New Zealand, Middle Eastern, Spanish, and Eastern European. Assignments will include a major research project in which students choose between primary research on metaphor in a work or set of works or secondary research on a theme relevant to the course and a presentation on metaphor in a chosen work to children in the University School International Club. An electronic coursepack of materials will be provided on D2L. In addition, students will need to buy these books: Metaphor: A Practical Introduction, Second Edition [ISBN: ] Hiroshima Mon Amour, [ISBN: ] Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World [ISBN: ]

8 The Bone People, [ISBN: ] ENGL Advanced Composition O Donnell This course emphasizes readability, creativity, and writing for real audiences. I will encourage you to develop a readable voice, and to incorporate narrative elements--character, setting, plot--along with information from source materials, into your writing. Assignments include five nonfiction pieces, of about 1500 words each. Students will write in a variety of modes and genres, choosing topics in consultation with me. The course is "revision-oriented": You will participate in draft workshops, and the grading policy allows you to drop a low grade, and to revise for new grades. Readings include recent nonfiction from an American magazine-writing anthology. For more information: faculty.etsu.edu/odonnell/2017spring/engl3130/ ENGL Digital Literary Research and Writing Briggs Prerequisite: ENGL This course provides students with guidelines and practical experience for engaging with emerging technologies that support literary research. It is designed around the central core idea of the digital humanities. Students will investigate the role of traditional literary studies with an ever-expanding digital environment. It is important for students to understand how digital literacy both expands their engagement with literature and challenges many of the research standards they have been taught. In essence, the course prepares students to function within a constantly evolving digital culture that is, at once, very much like and very different from the academy as we know it. Students will use Research and Documentation in the Digital Age (6 th edition) by Hacker and Fister, as well as Harvard s Digital Humanities Café and the MLA Common series, Literary Studies in the Digital Age, both of which are available online. ENGL Computers/Writing/Literature Haley Prerequisite: ENGL The focus of this course is the exploration of connections among computers, writing, and literature the implications that the Internet and computers have for writing, literacy, and uses of texts. We will begin by examining a variety of texts available in full or in part on the Internet; then we ll proceed to the rhetorical and technical aspects of these texts; and we will conclude with the production of student text resources. Format and layout of documents (whether they re prepared in HTML or as word-processed texts) are important aspects of this course and will be considered among the graded activities and in the broader context of good writing. No Textbook Materials for this course will be provided via handouts and Internet texts. ENGL

9 Creative Writing I: Fiction Baumgartner Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 or equivalent, and one 2000-level literature course. Students will read contemporary short fiction from a range of cultures and traditions, and have an opportunity to write and submit new work of their own. Special emphasis will be given to issues of form and technique in the short story. We will begin the semester by examining some of the finest published stories around, and then shift our attention to exploring outstanding student fiction submitted for workshop. Although we will dedicate a significant portion of the semester to student writing, you should come prepared to read and write critically (as well as creatively) on a weekly basis. Required texts: The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction, ed. Joyce Carol Oates, 2008 [ISBN- 13: ] The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Creative Writing. Reprint edition, ed. Alice LaPlante, 2010 [ISBN-13: ] ENGL Literature, Ethics, and Values Grover Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 or equivalent. In English 3150, we will examine several authors handling of such subjects as justice, the environment, good v. evil, gender issues, war, and identity in both fiction and nonfiction. Coursework includes readings, discussions, several short papers, and one in-depth study of a topic in literature relating to ethics and/or values. This study will result in a paper of about ten pages and an in-class presentation. For example, a student concerned with literature about war may read several pieces (such as The Iliad, Red Badge of Courage, Killer Angels, The Quiet American) and examine the values each reflects and/or challenges. A major purpose for this course is to enable students to form their own ethical positions and social values. There are no tests for this section of English Required texts: Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid s Tale. Anchor, ISBN 10: ISBN 13: Camus, Albert. The Plague. Vintage, ISBN 13: Kleiman, Lowell, and Lewis. Philosophy: An Introduction Through Literature. Paragon House, ISBN 13: Wiesel, Elie. Night, rev. ed. Hill and Wang, ISBN 13: ENGL Literature, Ethics, and Values Vaughn Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 or equivalent. This online course offers readings and discussions (through D2L) which reveal ethics and values in literature. Contexts of philosophy, history, and art will be included to enable students to form their own ethical positions and social values. Required text: Making Literature Matter. Schilb. ISBN:

10 ENGL History of the English Language Michieka Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 or equivalent. This course traces the development of the English language from its origins to the present. We will start with a brief introduction to language in general and the English language in particular. We will then examine the structural changes the English language has undergone beginning from its remote ancestry to the present. Required Texts: Gramley Stephan. The History of English: An introduction. Routledge. ISBN: ENGL Literature of Pop Culture Sports Literature Baumgartner Prerequisite: ENGL This course will examine the interplay between sports, art and popular culture. We will begin the semester with one of the most beloved (and most haunting) children s books of all time, The Kid from Tomkinsville, by John R. Tunis a novel Philip Roth once referred to as the boys Book of Job. We will look closely at complex and often conflicting notions of grace, talent, myth and authority, and explore how these aspects of sports culture populate our dreams and shape our identities. Books assigned include The Natural by Bernard Malamud (baseball), and End Zone by Don DeLillo (football). We will look at contemporary examples of sports journalism and creative nonfiction, as well as short fiction by Andre Dubus and Stuart Dybek, poetry by Fred Chappell and Jim Daniels, and others. Film adaptations of great sports novels will also be examined. Feel free to contact Dr. Mark Baumgartner (baumgartnerm@etsu.edu) if you would like more information about the course. ENGL Mythology Cody Mythology from the world over will be our semester-long topic. Along the way, we will first pay particular attention to selected figures from the Greek pantheon and then examine literary works, ancient and modern, that develop mythological themes, characters, and situations. ENGL Mythology Holland Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 or equivalent. Mythology from the world over will be our first topic. Then we will move to a study of five particular figures from ancient Greek mythology, stopping along our way to examine literary works, ancient and modern, that develop mythological themes, situations, dilemmas. ENGL Intro to Film McManus

11 As good a way as any towards understanding what a film is trying to say to us is to know how it is saying it (André Bazin). This course serves as an introduction to the study of film, providing students with a basic set of tools for analyzing moving images in order to learn how films communicate meaning. For this purpose, we will break down the complex processes of filmmaking in order to understand the many different aspects that determine the meaning of a finished shot, scene, or film. We will look at the basic components of film style from mise-en-scène through cinematography to editing and sound and we will consider different principles of narration as well as the construction of non-narrative films. We will also familiarize ourselves with the basic terminology for film analysis, and we will explore the relation between film form and culture in selected case studies. ENGL Introduction to Film Studies Briggs Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 or equivalent. As good a way as any towards understanding what a film is trying to say to us is to know how it is saying it (André Bazin). This course serves as an introduction to the study of film in the way Bazin describes. The course provides students with a basic set of tools for analyzing film. For this purpose, we will break down the complex processes of filmmaking in order to understand the many different aspects that determine the meaning of a finished shot, scene, or film. We will look at the basic components of film style from mise-en-scène through cinematography to editing and sound and we will consider different principles of narration as well as the construction of non-narrative films. We will also familiarize ourselves with the basic terminology for film analysis, and we will explore the relation between film form and culture in selected case studies. ENGL 3300 Literary Criticism Sawyer English 3300 is a survey of contemporary literary criticism and theory. The goals for students in the course are the following: *Accomplish an overview of the various critical approaches to literature; *Read some of the central texts of contemporary literary theory; *Practice applying critical approaches to literature in oral presentations; *Improve your ability to communicate orally in several speaking situations; *Enlarge your vocabulary of critical and theoretical language; *Learn new ways to think about and enjoy literature; *Think about the political and social stakes of literary criticism; *Gain confidence as a speaker of professional literary discourse. Required texts: Beginning Theory: an Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. 3rd or 4th ed. Peter Barry. Manchester Press, 2002 (ISBN: ) The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms. 3rd ed. Ross Murfin and Supryia M. Ray (ISBN: ) Hamlet: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism, ed. Susanne Wofford (ISBN: )

12 ENGL The Bible as Literature Reid In this course, we will have the honor and pleasure of studying the most influential work of western literature: the Bible. As we analyze the Bible as literature, we will focus on its unparalleled richness of theme, style, character, and genre (creation myth, epic, lyric, wisdom, prophecy, epistle, apocalypse). We will also explore the Bible s signature shaping power on subsequent literature and visual art, paying particular attention to how later artists have wrestled with and questioned their mighty Urtext. In a special writer s workshop lead by Catherine Pritchard Childress (Other), we will compose our own Bibleinspired works to be published in our class anthology, Collegiastes. For more information, contact Dr. Josh Reid: reidjs@etsu.edu. Required texts: The English Bible: King James Version: Old Testament. Editor: Herbert Marks. Norton Critical Edition. The English Bible: King James Version: New Testament and the Apocrypha. Editor: Gerald Hammond and Austin Busch. Norton Critical Edition. The Literary Guide to the Bible. Editors: Robert Alter and Frank Kermode. Harvard University Press. Other. Catherine Pritchard Childress. Finishing Line Press. ENGL The British Novel Westover The British novel was born in the 18th century, but the novel as we know it the modern novel of human psychology and interior emotional space emerged from the 19th. More specifically, it has its genesis in the works of Jane Austen, whose innovative narrative techniques within novels of social and emotional crisis changed the genre permanently. This course will focus on what might be called The Novel 2.0 or The Novel after Austen. Set in the 19th and 20th centuries amidst class divisions, industrial revolutions, colonial exploitations, human rights struggles, and devastating wars, these novels register the impact of history at the level of the individual. They also talk to each other in surprising ways, and we will follow the inter-textual threads as we discover them. For more information, contact Dr. Daniel Westover, westover@etsu.edu. Required Texts: Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (Oxford, ISBN: ) George Eliot, Silas Marner (Oxford, ISBN: ) Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd (Oxford, ISBN: ) Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (Oxford, ISBN: ) Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (Penguin, ISBN: ) Graham Swift, Waterland (Vintage, ISBN: ) Zadie Smith, White Teeth (Random House, ISBN: )

13 ENGL Children s Literature Thompson In this course, we will take an historical approach to our study of children s literature as we consider literary content, illustration, social values, cultural contexts, and publishing. We will read fairy tales (and a few modern appropriations), instructional and moral texts from the eighteenth century, nursery rhymes, fanciful novels from the nineteenth century, realistic novels that emerged in the mid-twentieth century, traditional and post-modern picture books, and the 2016 winner of the Newberry Medal Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña. We will also attend a Barter Theatre production and participate in a talkback with the actors back stage after the show to discuss the role of theatre in Children s Literature. For more details about the course, please me at thompsop@etsu.edu. ENGL British Poetry Westover The theme for this section of British poetry will be Britain De-Centered: Region and Nation in Postwar British Poetry. We will begin by examining the dominant, Anglo-centric mode in postwar British poetry, locating its roots in the Movement poets of the 1950s and Robert Conquest s influential New Lines anthology. We will also explore divergent, countercultural, and experimental movements that emerged around the same time. We will then move to the so-called peripheries and fringes of the poetic landscape, where regionalisms and nationalisms in the British Midlands, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland complicate and challenge the English mode and its depictions of British-ness. Emphasizing a de-centered, postcolonial Britain, we will pay close attention to the voices of poets who have historically been pushed to the margins of literary narratives. For more information, contact Dr. Daniel Westover, westover@etsu.edu. Required Texts: Anthology of Twentieth Century British and Irish Poetry, ed. Keith Tuma (Oxford, 2001). ISBN: X Poetry: (Library of Wales), ed. Meic Stephens (Parthian, 2007). ISBN: The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse, eds. Robert Crawford and Mick Imlah (Penguin, 2007). ISBN: ENGL African Literature Michieka Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 or equivalent. This course explores the exciting and extremely diverse literature from Africa. One of the main objectives of the course is to help students develop a greater appreciation of cultural, thematic, and aesthetic representations in African literature. The course also aims at equipping students with skills to enable them to make accurate judgments of both style and meaning in three genres of African literature fiction, drama, and poetry. Readings will range from

14 classics and founding texts such as Achebe s Things Fall Apart to more contemporary works like Ogola s The River and the Source. While the course will concentrate on works written in English, translations from other languages (e.g French & Arabic) will be considered. ENGL Writing: Theory and Teaching Honeycutt Prerequisites: ENGL In this course, students will investigate contemporary attitudes toward and uses of writing in the classroom. They will explore historically influential and current theories of rhetoric and composition, and then use composition theory to understand and develop classroom practices. By the end of the course, students will be able to articulate their teaching philosophies, to design effective writing assignments, and to practice responsible but efficient methods of responding to student writing. Required Texts: Lindemann, Erika. A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers (4th edition). Oxford UP Jago, Carol. Papers, Papers, Papers: An English Teacher s Survival Guide. Heinemann Palmer, Parker J. The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher s Life, 10 th Anniversary Edition. Jossey-Bass Silvia, Paul J. How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing. American Psychological Association. ENGL Themes in Women s Lit: The Girl in Literature Thompson This course explores the emerging field of girls' studies. We will employ an interdisciplinary lens to examine the historical construction of the girl in literature and the social construction of girlhood in contemporary culture. Topics will include identity formation and adolescent development, sexuality, sexual orientation, gender identity, socialization, self-esteem, agency, health, ability and disability, safety, education, media (mis)representation, consumerism, economic security, and activism. For more details about the course, please me at thompsop@etsu.edu. ENGL Grammar and Usage Elhindi Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 or equivalent. This class introduces the system of rules that underlie English usage. Our task would be bringing these rules that you already learned as a native speaker of English from a subconscious to a conscious level. If you speak English as a second language, you probably have a good focal grasp of these grammatical rules. This course introduces the structure of words, phrases, clauses, and sentences. We will examine the distribution of these linguistic units and investigate the rules determining their classification and combination. This class is essential to students who want to develop their confidence as English writers and teachers. The textbook for this class is Analyzing English Grammar, 7th Edition, by Thomas Klammer, ISBN Should you need further

15 information regarding this course, you are welcome to stop by my office, call, or me. I am in 310 Burleson Hall; my telephone is ; and my electronic address is Elhindi@etsu.edu. ENGL Grammar and Usage McGarry This course takes a descriptive approach to English grammar, i.e. we examine the rules by which English speakers form phrases, clauses, and sentences. Among the topics we address are word classes (nouns, verbs, etc.) and their properties, types and structure of phrases and clauses, principles of grammatical analysis and description, and grammatical variation among varieties of English. The course provides essential understanding for future teachers of English, increases the ability to speak and write English effectively, and heightens critical thinking and analysis skills. The text is A Student's Introduction to English Grammar by Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey Pullum, ISBN ENGL The Social and Psychological Aspects of Language Elhindi During the first half of the semester we will explore some of the basic psycholinguistic topics. These include the nature of linguistic competence, the biological basis of language, how children acquire language, the production and comprehension of speech, and remembering sentences and processing discourse. In the second part of the semester we will study the key concepts in sociolinguistics. Topics include language and society, language and ethnic group, language and sex, language and social interaction, and language and humanity. There are two required textbooks for this course: Fundamentals of Psycholinguistics by Fernandez & Cairns, ISBN , and Sociolinguistics, 4 th edition, by Peter Trudgill, ISBN If you have any questions about this course, please call, write, or stop by. I am in 310 Burleson Hall; my office telephone number is ; and my electronic address is elhindi@etsu.edu ENGL Shakespeare and His Age Sawyer This course examines a wide range of Shakespeare s plays, including two comedies, four tragedies, and one romance. We will also read one play by Christopher Marlowe, comparing his most important work, Dr. Faustus, to the plays of Shakespeare. While we will focus on interpretation of the text itself, we will also consider the cultural context of the plays and apply various critical theories to them. Although I will present some lectures, class discussion is also an important part of this course. Required texts: The Norton Shakespeare, W.W. Norton & Company, 3 rd ed. (2015). ISBN: Hamlet: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism, ed. Susanne Wofford. ISBN: Dr. Faustus, ed. David Bevington and Eric Rasmussen. ISBN: Recommended text: Shakespeare and Appropriation, ed. Christy Desmet and Robert Sawyer. ISBN:

16 ENGL Film Criticism McManus Since the beginnings of film history, there has been a body of work that has considered the uniqueness and complexity of film narrative, the psychological intricacy and instruction involved in film viewing, the relation of filmic representations to reality, and the role that technology plays in the construction of films. This body of work is what we know as film criticism and theory. In this course, we will identify and analyze how the basic concepts and preoccupations of film criticism and theory have changed (or not) over film history. We will read texts ranging from classical film theory to more contemporary approaches. ENGL Topics in Film: Hispanic Cinema Hall Prerequisites: SPAN 3313, SPAN 3413, SPAN 3513, or SPAN A study of cinematic works from Latin America and Spain within the context of Hispanic literature and culture. ENGL Topics in Film: Family in Film McManus The representation of the family in popular culture says a lot about its historical context and its sociopolitical unconscious. For example, a representation of a family made up of husband wife 2.5 children is different than either one composed only of a single parent struggling to survive or one composed of same-sex parents. This class will explore such differences and ask: What accounts for particular representations of the family over history? What changes in terms of historical desires, beliefs, anxieties, identities, and ideologies play into the changing representation of family in film and television? Why, finally, is it the figure of the family that is made to be so charged with meaning and symbolical value in cultural representations? ENGL Chaucer and Medieval Literature Crofts This is an intensive introduction to the work of Geoffrey Chaucer (c ), the undisputed heavyweight of medieval English poetry and one of the most subtle, inventive and hilarious poets of any age. We ll read Chaucer s writings, with special emphasis on the Canterbury Tales, in the original Middle English, becoming familiar with Chaucer s fourteenth-century London dialect, which we will read aloud. We will also be reading from key background texts to help illuminate the historical world in which Chaucer made his career. Poets who were Chaucer s contemporaries and near-contemporaries such as Machaut, Dante, Boccaccio, Gower and Langland will also be introduced, as will music and visual art of the period. By the end of the course, you will be able to read Chaucer s language with comparative ease, get most of his jokes, and consider yourself an initiate in the study of medieval literature. You will also

17 have deepened your understanding of the English language, which will benefit your own expertise as a writer. Required texts: The Riverside Chaucer, Ed. Larry D. Benson (Houghton Mifflin 3rd edition) [ISBN-13: ] [ISBN-10: ] / (Oxford paperback Edition: 3rd Revised edition) [ISBN- 13: ] [ISBN-10: ] Chaucer: Sources and Backgrounds, Ed. Robert P. Miller (Oxford) [ISBN-10: ] [ISBN- 13: ] Recommended texts: A Chaucer Glossary, Ed. Norman Davis, et al. (Oxford) [ISBN-13: ] [ISBN-10: ] Chaucer Coloring Book (Bellerophon Books) [ISBN-10: ] / [ISBN-13: ] ENGL Studies in English: Banned Books Honeycutt The American novelist Kurt Vonnegut once aptly rebuked the notion of censorship: I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases. Throughout Studies in English: Banned Books (ENGL 4896), we will read many of these literary diseases as we survey the histories, impetuses, and effects of challenging and banning books. Our discussions will center on the themes that caused these texts so much trouble: sexuality, gender, politics, violence, drug use, and religion. The class will primarily be concerned with texts that were challenged in schools and libraries throughout the Unites States during the mid-twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries. Warning! It s going to be raucous ride. Required texts: Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer; Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita; Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest; J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye; Allen Ginsberg, Howl; Walter Dean Myers, Fallen Angels; Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five; Anonymous; Go Ask Alice; and Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. ENGL Creative Writing Capstone Baumgartner Prerequisites: ENGL 3141 and ENGL This capstone course in creative writing allows juniors and seniors in the Creative Writing minor to gain valuable professional knowledge and experience. This is a cross-genre class focusing on poetry and fiction; work in drama, screenwriting and creative nonfiction is also welcome. Coursework will go beyond traditional workshop curriculum to focus on publishing, copy editing, memorization and performance, as well as guided instruction in developing professional materials necessary for the creative job market. A key project in the class will be the development of an edited, cohesive portfolio of each student s best work. Feel free to contact Dr. Mark Baumgartner (baumgartnerm@etsu.edu) if you would like more information about the course. Required texts:

18 The Creative Writer s Survival Guide, by John McNally [ISBN-13: ] The Poet s Companion, by Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux [ISBN-13: ] The Best American Poetry 2016, eds. David Lehman and Edward Hirsch [ISBN-13: ] The Best American Short Stories 2016, eds. Heidi Pitlor and Junot Diaz [ISBN-13: ] ENGL Special Topics in English: Dante s Divine Comedy Reid Join us for an unforgettable literary journey through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Heaven (Paradiso) as we study Dante s Divine Comedy. We will read the Divine Comedy twice, via two different translation traditions: a prose scholar s Dante and a verse poet s Dante. As part of the course, we will assist the Reece Museum with its spring exhibit of Salvador Dalí s illustrations of Dante s Purgatorio. For more information, contact Dr. Josh Reid: reidjs@etsu.edu. Required texts: Dante, Inferno, trans. and ed. Robert Durling Dante, Purgatorio, trans. and ed. Robert Durling Dante, Paradiso, trans. and ed. Robert Durling Dante, Inferno, trans. Robert Pinsky Dante, Purgatorio, trans. W. S. Merwin Dante, Paradiso, trans. John Ciardi ENGL Children s Literature Thompson See ENGL ENGL Writing: Theory and Teaching Honeycutt See ENGL ENGL Literature of Southern Appalachia Mountains of the Mind : Southern Appalachia and Beyond Lloyd Mountains are a defining characteristic of Appalachia, but what does that fact mean? Physically, psychologically, philosophically, and spiritually, how does the experience of being in a mountain space affect people? Conversely, what are the tropes by which we describe mountains, the uses to which we put them? Are mountains beneath our feet or, in Richard MacFarlane s words, of the mind? To paraphrase J. W. Williamson, what have mountains done to people and their literature, and what have people and their literature done to mountains? We will read the literature of mountains not only in

19 Appalachia but also world-wide climb the Alps and Mount Everest and hike the Pacific Crest Trail as well as scramble up Cherryboy and Yellowroot, trout-fish in the Smokies, and search for the way to two Cold Mountains. Texts: Fred Chappell. Farewell I m Bound to Leave You. Charles Frazier. Cold Mountain. Grove/Vintage. Richard MacFarlane. Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit. Jim Wayne Miller. The Brier Poems. Kevin O Donnell and Helen Hollingsworth. Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, Ann Pancake. Strange as This Weather Has Been Gary Snyder. Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems Cheryl Strayed. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Various online and D2L readings ENGL Themes in Women s Literature: The Girl in Literature Thompson See ENGL ENGL Grammar and Usage Elhindi See ENGL 4117 ENGL Grammar and Usage McGarry See ENGL ENGL Sound Systems of English McGarry This course gives a phonetic and phonemic overview of the sound system of Standard English and some other common varieties. We discuss the fundamentals of phonological analysis, study the vowels, consonants, syllables, and stress and intonation patterns of English, and briefly encounter acoustic analysis with spectrographs. We also examine the phonology of speakers of English as a second language and discuss approaches to teaching pronunciation. Students choose a course project focusing on either pronunciation teaching or dialect analysis. Required Texts: Applied English Phonology, 2nd edition, by Mehmet Yawas, ISBN

20 How to Teach Pronunciation, by Gerald Kelly, ISBN ENGL Renaissance Literature: The Age of Elizabeth Waage Using Stump and Felch s Elizabeth I and Her Age as print text of reference, and the Glenda Jackson Elizabeth R as a video text of reference throughout the course, we are going to read a variety of important works dating from the beginning of Elizabeth I s reign to the end. Given this premise, the main focus of our readings (but not the exclusive one) will be on the social, political, and religious content of the works. Obviously, many important writers are not included in our readings, but if you know them, you are welcome to incorporate their work in your comments or writings. As a seminar, our activities will be based on presentations/readings of weekly writings. This does not mean any casual discussion outside of these is excluded; in fact, I encourage people to come with things they d like to talk about and bring them up spontaneously. Our course is not a lecture format. ENGL Teaching English as a Second Language Elhindi This graduate-level course equips students to evaluate approaches and methodologies for teaching English to speakers of other languages. We examine traditional and newer approaches in light of learning principles supported by second language acquisition research and analyze our own and others teaching practices and materials in light of these principles. Students will define their own teaching philosophies, choose or design teaching units suitable for applying those philosophies, teach those units in class, and evaluate their own and other students teaching. The required textbook is Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy by H. Douglas Brown. It should be easily available online, but make sure you get the Pearson 4 th edition. The ISBN is ENGL Internship in Teaching English as a Second Language McGarry The students in this course will teach at least 30 hours of ESL. They will receive guidance and practice in lesson planning, teaching, self-evaluation, and other relevant aspects of teaching. Unless the student has previous TESOL training and/or experience, it is advisable to take ENGL 5170 and/or 5190 before taking this course. The student s interests in teaching will be taken into consideration when the specific placement is decided. If you plan to take the course, please contact me as soon as possible, so that I can start arranging the placement. ENGL th Century British Novel Lichtenwalner The 19th century say the rise of the novel as an art form, ushering in an age where it became the predominant literary format. This course will examine the development of the novel into a literary tool

21 to explore and expound social, political, and psychological commentary for the issues of the day through writers such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Mary Gaskell, Charles Dickens, George Elliott, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, and Bram Stoker. ENGL Colonial and Federal American Literature Cody Narratives of settlement, personal and communal histories, sermons, private and public poetry, diaries, narratives of Indian captivity these are the major genres with which American literature begins. In this course, we will first explore the literary culture of our nation's founders especially those writing in New England and ask what is American and what is literary about colonial American literature. Then, as we pass through the 18th century, we will experience the change in the American character as the colonies move toward secularization, revolution, independence and Federalism. Similar changes take place in American literature as sermons step aside to share the literary pulpit with a declaration of independence, political and social essays, neoclassical and pre-romantic poetry, and a potentially dangerous genre new to America the novel. Texts include The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Literature to 1820, Rebecca Rush s Kelroy and Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly. Handouts (paper and electronic) will be used as well. ENGL Seminar in 19th Century American Literature: American Realism Holland From the coast of Maine to upstate New York, Rome, London, Chicago and the California desert; from the bright intelligence of a James heroine to the brutal instincts of the mean spirited: this course will examine a number of works of realism in fiction, from James through Dreiser. Initial emphasis will be on three works by Henry James, intended to serve as a touchstone for the works by other writers to follow. We will begin with James The Portrait of a Lady, move on to the short novel What Maisie Knew, and finish with a late work, Wings of the Dove. Norris McTeague, a collection of Cooke s short fiction, Frederic s The Damnation of Theron Ware, her final novel, Country of the Pointed Firs and a couple of short stories by Sarah Orne Jewett, Wharton s dark short novel Ethan Frome and The House of Mirth and two works by Dreiser, Sister Carrie and The Financier, will provide us examples of naturalism, so-called local color fiction, and fiction set in both rural and urban places. ENGL Professional Writing Haley Professional writing is a subset of Technical Writing. In this course you will examine basic forms of professional writing, focusing on tone, meaning, audience, and purpose. The focus will be on theory and praxis: why is professional writing performed in so many ways and in so many settings? In this seminarstyle class, students grades will be based on portfolio assessment. Required Texts